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anal tuft. Beneath the hair is finer and more sparse, 
The primaries at first sight appear to be almost uniformly 
pur carmine. Closer examination of a large series shows that 
the narrow even terminal space is decidedly paler with a purplish wash 
ove a luteous base, while the median area is paler and decidedly more 
times almost absent. Fringes whitish. Secondaries black, immacu- 
Tate, fringes white. Beneath; primaries black on disc, costal margin 
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fe _ “Habitat—Hessville, Indiana, May 30th, June 6, 13. 
i‘ 2. “Ten males and nine females, all in good or fair condition 
> _ from Mr. Alexander Kwiat, at whose request I have prepared 
_ the above description and who will give further details concern- 
SEINE Rahits of the species and the circumstances relating to 
its capture.” 
On the upper side there is little variation. On the underside 
__ there is a considerable range in the proportion of the black 
and purplish areas. Sometimes the black predominates, leaving 
BE vcrcich or carmine costal and apical ares: the 
other extreme is where the wing has a carmine wash over a 
yellowish base, the black restricted to a large discal spot a sub- 
terminal band and a basal shade extending somewhat through 
the centre of the wing. 
In structural details the species agrees in most details with 
___ modicella. The front is not protuberant and there is a nar- 
gow thickened frontal ridge along the inferior border, The 
) anterior tibiae are somewhat shortened, broad and flattened 
with a very long curved claw-like spine at the inner side of tip 
and two stout spines above it : at the outer side there is a shorter 
and smaller curved spine at tip and two others not much smaller 
